Around 270 Nationalists organized a "funeral march" on May 8, 2010 to commemorate the 2000 victims of the mass suicide that happened in the German city of Demmin on May 1, 1945, during the closing days of WWII and the so called "liberation". The victims, mostly women, children and old men, committed suicide by downing themselves in the nearby river or by taking poison to avoid being captured by the Soviet army that was about to overrun the town.
The march went on without incident - a procession through the streets of the Hanseatic city with the background sound of muffled drums to underline the tragic circumstances of the event. Only about 40 counter-demonstrators showed up.

In communist-era Yugoslavia, antifascism was very much embedded in the local ideology.

History lessons for schoolchildren warned about the evils of the so-called "fascist-monarchist alliance." Families would speak with pride about a relative who fought as a Partisan against the Nazis, but hide family ties to Croatia's pro-Nazi Ustashe regime or the Serbian nationalist Chetnik paramilitary group.

Nowadays, as Serbia and Croatia move further from their communist past, such tendencies appear to be undergoing a transformation. As the Balkan countries join Europe in marking 65 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, many people there now appear to be rejecting ex-Yugoslavia's history of antifascism.

In modern-day Belgrade, it is acceptable -- even socially advantageous -- for people to speak openly about a Chetnik grandfather. Conversely, there is growing reluctance to discuss elderly relatives who were Partisan fighters.

Meanwhile, Serbia's nationalist-dominated parliament recently passed a law giving Chetnik veterans of World War II the same pension rights and social benefits as Partisans who fought against the Nazis.

In 2005, when Moscow marked the 60th anniversary of the Victory in Europe against fascism, Serbia did not send a representative to the event. Belgrade also declined to send a representative to ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland.

Last year, when delegates from 46 countries signed an international declaration at the Terezin Nazi concentration camp in the Czech Republic -- pledging to return property that was seized from Jewish families during World War II -- Belgrade opted not to sign the document.

Re: WWII mass suicide of civilians commemorated by German nationalists

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Originally Posted by ScandoRus

Germany shall rise again

You say that out of hope that Germany might do so. I'm going to put my money down right now that the German people are eventually going to rise up against their devaluation as a culture. Being taught constantly that your ancestors are evil and being "reminded" of the Holocaust time-and-time again, I know it makes them upset hearing about, and I know they will eventually strike back. Look at their mandatory public education system for example. The literature that Germans read in school are mainly works written by Germans of Jewish descent (works written in German by Jews would be more accurate). They are taught and know everything about the "death" camps, but they have no clue what the Oaths of Strasbourg are. Don't even get me fired up on the version of history they are taught.

Even here in America, look at course syllabuses and the faculty members that manage these German Studies departments across the country. Same thing, German Jewry is beautified and any Germans sympathetic to Hitler are cleansed from literature. The faculty are either Jewish or they're Gentiles incapable of critical thinking. German Studies is in the process of ridding the field of scholarship related to pre-modern Germany. Why not? It is history that plays into the hands of true German patriots in the end.